IT’S ALMOST LIKE THERE’S SOME SORT OF A PLAN: While eyes are on Russia, Sessions dramatically reshapes the Justice Department.

From his crackdown on illegal immigration to his reversal of Obama administration policies on criminal justice and policing, Sessions is methodically reshaping the Justice Department to reflect his nationalist ideology and hard-line views — moves drawing comparatively less public scrutiny than the ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin.

Sessions has implemented a new charging and sentencing policy that calls for prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible, even if that might mean minority defendants face stiff, mandatory minimum penalties. He has defended the president’s travel ban and tried to strip funding from cities with policies he considers too friendly toward undocumented immigrants.

Sessions has even adjusted the department’s legal stances in cases involving voting rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in a way that advocates warn might disenfranchise poor minorities and give certain religious people a license to discriminate.

Supporters and critics say the attorney general has been among the most effective of the Cabinet secretaries — implementing Trump’s conservative policy agenda even as the president publicly and privately toys with firing him over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia case.

I remember when changes like this happened under Obama, we were told “elections have consequences,” and if we didn’t like it, to go out and win an election.

TROLL OF THE YEAR:

As veteran left-leaning media critic Jack Shafer tweets, “If Trump can destroy Time magazine’s stupid Person of the Year issue it will all be worth it.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Will snow become a thing of the past as the climate warms?

—BBC.com, January 27, 2016.

● Chaser: UK warned of ice as cold snap bites: “Meanwhile, councils in England and Wales have stockpiled 1.5 million tonnes of salt for roads this winter… There has already been heavy snowfalls in the Scottish Highlands this week, where icy conditions caused a number of road accidents.”

—BBC.com, today.

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SAVING PRIVATE KAEPERNICK. Or, Dispatches from the Intersection of the JournoList and the Memory Hole:

● Shot: Social media users are tearing into Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren for posting a photoshopped image of Colin Kaepernick that depicts him taking a knee in front of the D-Day landings.

—The Hill, today.

● Chaser: Hillary’s Campaign Spokesman [Brian Fallon] Compares D-Day Soldiers To Antifa.

—The Daily Caller, August 16th.

● Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, went a bridge too far, comparing the uber-left group Antifa to the intrepid soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II.

—The Daily Wire, August 16th.

● CNN Anchor [Chris Cuomo] Compares Antifa Domestic Terrorists To U.S. Army In WWII.

— Cernovich.com, August 16th.

Found via Stephen Miller, who tweets, “journos dunking on [Lahren’s Photoshop] seem to forget different they made the exact same comparison with Antifa.”

UGH: As Malaria Resists Treatment, Experts Warn of Global Crisis.

We came close to eradicating malaria once, but environmentalists ruined it.

CHANGE: Abortion rates in US hit historic low, CDC report finds.

I’LL AVOID THOSE THEN. FOR SAFETY. Male triathletes may be putting their heart health at risk.

JUST BE HONEST, MILLENNIALS, AND SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS.

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WATCH: Colin Kaepernick Participates in ‘Unthanksgiving Day:’

Former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick took his woke SJW act to Alcatraz Island Thursday to take part in what has become an annual event among Native American activists: the Alcatraz Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering, also known as “Unthanksgiving Day.”

Kaepernick really does sound like an escapee from a Tom Wolfe novel these days. But the Alcatraz detail is the point where Wolfe would say to himself while typing, “There’s no way I can put this into my next novel — no one would believe it could be true.”

HIJAB BARBIE: Perfect Christmas gift for non-Muslim parents who want to stick it to Trump.

Is there a big demand for hijab Barbie? Mattel thinks so. One obvious market for the doll is the liberal, non-Muslim parent who wants to make a statement to the world about tolerance and intersectionality.

This is the kind of person who dresses a baby boy in pink to trap the unwary into an uncomfortable/sanctimonious discussion about gender roles. These parents will have a special glow of virtue about them in the checkout line. In fact, they will make a special effort to go to the mall instead of ordering online so they can chat up the patient checkout person about the social importance of their purchase.

But kids love to experiment with juxtaposition, so what happens on Christmas morning when their girls (or boys, whatever!) immediately put hijab Barbie into a skimpy bikini? Odds are they will get a stern lecture on cultural sensitivity. Because really, kids, this isn’t about you having fun; it’s about your parents sticking it to Trump.

There’s nothing a committed progressive can’t ruin.

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INCHON II IF BY SEA: South Korea Has a Secret Weapon If North Korea Starts a War.

Under the mentorship of the U.S. Marine Corps, South Korea has maintained one of the largest marine forces in the world. As one USMC colonel put it during the Vietnam War, which saw a brigade’s worth of South Korean marines (and their U.S.-trained officers) sent to Southeast Asia, “We taught them everything we know, and now they know it better than us.” Today, the Republic of Korea Marine Corps (ROKMC) consists of twenty-nine thousand marines organized into two divisions and a brigade.

In past years, the ROKMC has operated as a theater reserve, capable of rapidly reinforcing areas where invading North Korean forces might stage a breakthrough. This could be accomplished by moving troops over land, but it could also be done by sea: in 1975, the ROK Navy had twenty landing ships, including eight tank landing ships, and sixty other amphibious craft. If necessary, the ROKMC could stage its own, smaller-scale version of Inchon, though staging an attack into North Korea was not yet feasible.

After the end of the Cold War and the abandonment of North Korea by its Soviet ally, contingency plans involving the ROKMC began taking a more audacious tone. OPLAN 5027-94, one of the Pentagon’s contingency plans for the Korean Peninsula, envisioned a U.S. and South Korean amphibious landing at Wonsan to make an end-run on Pyongyang. The ROKMC would be used not just to defend South Korea, but to destroy the North Korean government.

I don’t know how to say “Semper Fi” in Korean, but I’d wager the men and women of ROKMC do.

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